shieldadvanced

Stronger DDoS protection for your AWS resources.

DDoS protection

What it does

Configures AWS Shield Advanced protections, mitigation, detection, response support, cost recovery, and protection groups.

When to use it

Use when stronger protection, expert attack assistance, or recovery of attack-driven scaling charges is wanted.

Give it an AWS Shield Advanced task; it selects and follows the matching procedure to make the requested account change.

This skill

AWS Shield Advanced account

Write

Starts paid protection and configures it (irreversible)

AWS IAM role for SRT

Write

Creates an IAM role for SRT

AWS account identity

Read

Checks your AWS account identity

AWS Shield Advanced protections

Read

Reads existing Shield protections

Requires an AWS account in which to subscribe and protect resources.

Enables the preferred command path with sandboxed execution, audit logging, and observability; AWS CLI is the fallback.

Routes AWS WAF rule, rate-based rule, and web ACL authoring to the waf skill.

Routes creation of Route 53 health checks to the route53 skill.